Approaches to improve separation efficiency of eddy current separation for recovering aluminum from waste toner cartridges

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6214-6221

  Ruan, Jujun ^a   Xu, Zhenming ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; FEEDING SPEED; INFLUENCING FACTOR; MACHINE STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC DRUM; OPERATION FACTORS; OPTIMAL VALUES; ORTHOGONAL EXPERIMENT; PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS; PARTICLE SHAPE; ROTATION SPEED; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; TONER CARTRIDGE;

ALUMINUM; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

ALUMINUM; PLASTIC;

ALUMINUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EDDY CURRENT SEPARATION; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

ALUMINUM; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLASTICS; PRINTING; RECYCLING; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84861878916     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3008358     Document Type: Article

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